Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-04-21
PANHANDLE ROBBERY.
over Sixty OF the Thieves said 10 be
Sure or Conviction.

PrrrsBURG, April 13.--The wholesale
arrest of the employees Of the Pan. Handle
railroad for robbing freight trains con.
tinues to be the topic of conversation
among railroad men and citizens general.
". Supt. Taylor's Office was beseiged
from early morning by dozens OF men in
search Of employment. The road Is now
fully equipped and there is no delay in
the movement Of freight trains No ar
rests have been reported since last night
and Special Agent Rue said regarding
the probable conviction of the men now
in Jail, that Of the sixty men now under
arrest not more than one or possibly two
of them, stood any chance Of being
shown not guilty. Said he: eve had
our CIV. CAGE so complete that we didn't
make an arrest until we had sufficient
proof to show the man was guilty. We
expect to make eight or ten more arrests
of men who worked successfully for a
time on the road and then for fear of de-
lection, took positions on other lines. This
will swell the number OF arrests to sixty.
eight OF seventy.
J. II. Dunlap, who made confession
going on for months, said he could not
ing killed. Dunlap said there was no
organization among the robbers, but il
was common understanding that each
man should take all he could and dispose
Of it TO the best advantage. The officers
of the road think the plunderers were or.
ganized, and when a new man entered
the service of the road, II he was thought
to be the right kind OF q fellow, he was
initiated into the. gang, with an oath
binding him TO secrecy. Dnnlap'said the
fences were located In New Philadelphia,
DennisoD, Steubcnville, Cincinnati and
Pittsburg. and also in Columbus.
There was n consultation between As.
sistant District Attorney Pagan and John
Il. Hampton, attorney for the Pennsyl.
vania CO.. In regard to the indictments
and the trial Of the prisoners. The trials
will be pushed as speedily as possible.
1t is believed that large number OF
men will plead guilty on one or two
charges, and thus escape trial on an ac-
emulation of charges. A number OF
petty fellows, whose stealings were
trifling. will be discharged and told to
leave this part Of the country. The wages
Of the men against whom charges have
been made have been withheld by the
company on the ground that the men
owe much more to the company than Is
due them. There is little doubt that the
present expose will lead to others on
other roads Some Of these are In the
Pennsylvania Co.'S. system and some in
the b. & o. II is said that the stealing
on other roads was not confined to the
box freights. Through the aid OF team
sters and others, large quantities OF pig
iron and manufactured iron and steel have
been stolen from cars in Pittsburgh and
in several other cities not far away. These
cases will be worked up soon.
But three additional arrests were made
to-day. The first one was Elmer Young,
a Pan Handle brakeman, at New Pales-
tine, Ohio. In his house large quantities
of goods, supposed to have been stolen,
were recovered About noon j. X. Null
len, brakeman against whom there are
all the charges, walked into Deputy Mayor
Gripp's Office and gave himself up. A
little later in the day Jas. i. Armstrong,
for whom warrant was out, did the
same thing and both were placed In Jail.
During the day ten OF the prisoners were
released upon furnishing bail, the bond
required being five hundred dollars upon
each charge.